Latest Achievements

Prof. Cliver published a chapter titled "Second Class Workers: Gender, Industry, and Locality in Workers' Welfare Provision in Revolutionary China" in the book The Habitable City in China: Urban History in the Twentieth Century, edited by Toby Lincoln and Xu Tao and published this month by Palgrave-Macmillan.

Peer Writing Consultant Thomas King (English) and Dr. Jessica Citti (Learning Center / Writing Studio) facilitated a workshop on writing center practice at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW) in Tacoma, WA.

Humboldt State University faculty and students had a major impact at the Western Society of Naturalists Meeting in Monterey, Calif., last weekend. With 51 registered participants HSU had the biggest showing of any university. Students and faculty presented 11 fantastic talks and 11 great posters. The special meeting also celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Society. Download the meeting's full program, including presentation abstracts, here: http://www.wsn-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WSN_2016_Long_Program_FINAL-1.pdf

Dr. Chelsea Teale, Geography, published “Wetlands of New Netherland” in the Hudson River Valley Review, relating colonial Dutch terms for wetlands to their modern-day US Fish and Wildlife classifications. Another paper also accepted for publication by New York History examines the uses and modifications of wetlands in pre-1800 agriculture. Geography major Dan Cooper (‘16) also worked as a research assistant under an Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities grant and continuing an Island Invasives and Eradication Programs database project by Dr. Teale that began at the University of Georgia Institute of Ecology.

The National Center for American Indian Development (NCAIED) has selected Dr. Kishan Lara-Cooper as a recipient of the prestigious "Native American 40 Under 40 Award" to acknowledge her leadership, initiative, advocacy, dedication, and significant contributions to Native communities throughout North America.

Dr. Alison O'Dowd recently published a paper in the journal 'Anthropocene' entitled: Wildfire, water, and society: Toward integrative research in the 'Anthropocene.'

Congratulations to HSU Geography major Patrick Wood, 2016 Winner of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Student Map Competition! The competition included 19 entries (12 graduate students, 7 undergraduates), traveling from 9 university programs including the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Penn State University, University of Oregon, University College London, and the University of Toronto. The prestigious award includes a cash prize of $500, and was presented at the annual NACIS conference this year in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Over 320 private sector, academic, and public sector cartographers gathered this year for 5 days of presentations, workshops, and networking.

The 2016 CSU Media Arts Festival was held on Saturday, November 5th in Los Angeles. Derrick Murrietta, student at Humboldt State took 1st place for his entry, titled "10,000 Steps" in the Short Screenplay category.

Steven Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP, Adjunct Professor of Geospatial Sciences, has been invited as the keynote speaker for GIS Day on Wednesday, November 16 at Shasta College in Redding.

He will be presenting: A Geospatial Journey...or how I discovered GIS and made a career of it (and you can too)!

When: 6:00pm
Where: Shasta College, Room 804, 11555 Old Oregon Trail, Redding, CA 96003

For more info Contact: Dan Scollon, (530) 242-2314

Armeda Reitzel was elected Chair of the Board of Directors for Access Humboldt, a non-profit, community media organization with public, educational, and governmental channels. This is her fourth consecutive year to serve as chair of the organization.

Tyler S. Stumpf recently published a paper entitled "Multifaceted Hotel Diversification in Developing Pacific Island Destinations" in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality & Tourism. Using a grounded theory approach, this research explores the strategic practices hotel businesses use to effectively operate in the languid tourism context found in many developing Pacific Islands. A three-dimensional conceptual model for surviving such challenging industry environments dubbed “Multifaceted Hotel Diversification” is proposed and discussed.

Rosemary Sherriff co-authored a new paper in Ecological Applications titled “Tree-ring isotopes reveal drought sensitivity in trees killed by spruce beetle outbreaks in south-central Alaska” that is part of an on-going collaborative project evaluating climate change and disturbance effects in white spruce forests in southwest and south-central Alaska.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.1365/full

Joshua Frye recently participated in an advanced community-based social marketing (CBSM) workshop held at City Hall in Bellevue, Washington. The workshop provided a forum for collaborative brainstorming and application of community-based social marketing strategies to help government agencies build more effective behavior change interventions. During the workshop, Dr. Frye worked with an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Community Involvement Coordinator, and others, to develop a CBSM behavior-change intervention program targeting ethnic minority groups in the Seattle metropolitan area who are consuming seafood from the Duwamish River which contain high levels of PCBs.

Dr. Fine has had a book review published in the Popular Culture Studies Journal.

Fine, Hunter H. “Book Review: Its Always Sunny and Philosophy: The Gang Gets Analyzed” Ed. Roger Hunt and Robert Arp, and “Book Review: Orange is the New Black and Philosophy: Last Exit from Litchfield” Ed. Richard Greene and Rachel Robinson-Greene. Journal of Popular Culture Studies 4.1/2 (2016): 440-45.

Steve Martin was recently appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of the Society for Wilderness Stewardship, a national organization dedicated to promoting excellence in the professional practice of wilderness stewardship, science, and education.

Eleven students of Chemistry Professor Robert Zoellner are co-authors on an article (attached) recently published in "The Chemical Educator," along with two of of his colleagues, Casey Lu from the Department of Biological Sciences, and Josh Smith from the Department of Chemistry. The full citation for the article is as follows:

Marcos A. Amezcua, Jr.; Kiefer G. Bell-Wilson; Dallas A Davenport; Kenneth D. Gossow-Smith; Jeremiah R. Hays; Thomas D. Henderson; Micah T. Ojeda; William D. Pfeifer; Shady A. Shafik; Mitchell H. Ward; Raymond Yu; Casey R. Lu; Joshua R. Smith; Robert W. Zoellner; "Replication of a published materials science synthesis: An impromptu upper-division undergraduate Inorganic Chemistry laboratory experiment"; The Chemical Educator 2016, 21, 215-222.

This was a joint project in which the students from Zoellner's Inorganic Chemistry II Laboratory (CHEM 410L) carried out the replication of the published synthesis from the suggestion of Josh Smith, and Casey Lu helped the students with performing the scanning electron microscope characterization of the graphene nanoplatelet products. All of the students participated in writing and editing the manuscript for publication, as did Lu and Smith; Zoellner is the corresponding author for the article.

"You can download the article here (PDF).":http://www.humboldt.edu/gamma/NOW_images/amezcua-TCE-2016-21-215.pdf

HSU Music Department Professor Dr. Gil Cline (3rd year, FERP) recently made two notable musical performance appearances.

On July 17 he performed on Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, for a recording session of 19th Century historic American music, using an historic 1860s American rotary-valve soprano cornet and also Civil War - era bugle. “Mustering” with a re-enactors 18-member brass band, in Federal uniforms portraying the US 3rd Artillery Band stationed there in the 1870s, a CD is soon to be produced and is to be available to the public at the Alcatraz Island Gift Shop.

On October 2, Cline and his HSU-based Trumpet Consort von Humboldt, with five current students, were featured guest artists at a concert with Jefferson Baroque in Ashland, Oregon. Using replica 1667 natural (no-valve; the historic type) trumpets, and a rope-tension drum, TCvH performed a half-hour concert, from memory and in costume, of Baroque and late Renaissance music -- with an encore of War’s “Low Rider.”

Additionally, TCvH has received an early invitation to perform in New York City in July 2017 for the third-ever international Historic Brass Society Symposium. In 2012, TCvH was the surprise “hit” at the 2nd Symposium, attended by leading performers and scholars from around the world.

Alumni Brittany Stuckey and Sunny Short-Miller; CAHSS Research Fellow Elizabeth Phillips; and COMM Professor Michael S. Bruner published an article, entitled "Lagos, Mythos, and Globalization," in the Journal of Communication and Media Research (October 2016).

Arianna Thobaben, Supplemental Instruction Coordinator, presented about active & collaborative learning at the National College Learning Center Association Conference (NCLCA) in Tampa, Florida. Her workshop was titled Keeping Students Engaged: Implementing Learning into your Teaching and Training.

Art Professor, Teresa Stanley, has been featured in an article in The Woven Tale Press, where she speaks about her work and and the connection between art and science.
http://www.thewoventalepress.net/2016/10/17/interview-teresa-stanley/

The National Communication Association has chosen to showcase Dr. Armeda Reitzel's syllabus for her Nonverbal Communication (Comm 324) course. Her syllabus appears on the organization's website for members to review.

Geography senior Monica Moreno-Espinoza and Professor Stephen Cunha presented papers at the 79th Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) meeting at Portland State University. For Mediterranean Refugee Crisis: Italian Student Attitudes Towards Political Migrants, Moreno-Espinoza surveyed 844 students from eight universities across Italy. The findings reveal positive sentiment towards political refugees, strong opinions towards other EU countries’ responsibility for assisting Italy in aiding refugees, and mixed attitudes on governmental intervention of refugee flow.

As presiding APCG President, Cunha’s Presidential Address documented 25 years of land protection efforts

HSU Native American Studies Asst. Professor Kayla Begay is set to present at the Conference on Endangered Native American Languages at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, PA, October 13-15. Begay presented "Teaching Wailaki: Archives, Interpretation, and Collaboration" along with Justin D. Spence and Cheryl Tuttle, Round Valley High School. More information is available at https://amphilsoc.org/conference/translatingconference.

Humboldt State University's efforts to address student hunger are profiled in a recent national report issued by the College and University Food Bank Alliance. The report, titled "Hunger on Campus," profiles HSU's work on bringing EBT benefits to campus and student-run Oh SNAP! weekly farm stand. Download the full report here: http://studentsagainsthunger.org/hunger-on-campus/.

Rae Robison was one of several "local luminaries" asked to perform as the Narrator at Ferndale Repertory in their production of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Robison performed to a packed house on Oct. 1, 2016. Upcoming productions feature other HSU staff, faculty and alumni.

Alison Holmes, International Studies was an invited participant in a faculty development roundtable at the International Studies Association - West, Regional conference in Pasadena, CA.

Alison Holmes was reelected to a fourth term to the Management Committee of the Transatlantic Studies Association at their annual conference which took place in Plymouth in the United Kingdom in July.

Tyler Stumpf, Asst. Professor of Management, recently published a paper entitled "Navigations: Enhancing Qualitative Hospitality and Tourism Research Outcomes in Pacific Island Countries" in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism Management. This paper explores how traditional open-ocean navigation principles predicated on catalyzing inputs from the external environment can be applied to help improve the qualitative research process when investigating hospitality and tourism phenomena in Pacific Island countries.

Harold Zaid was recently interviewed about his research regarding the relationships between drought, insect outbreaks, and wildlife by the independent digital media Water Deeply.
Link to the article
https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2016/09/14/the-surprising-sci…

Janelle Adsit presented "Teaching the Undergraduate Literary Magazine" at the Creative Writing Studies Organization conference in Asheville, NC. The presentation discussed innovations associated with Toyon Multilingual Journal of Literature and Art (www.toyonliterarymagazine.org). Integral to the presentation was research conducted by English majors AJ McGough, Angela Compton, and Bri Lucero during the Spring 2016 semester, supported by the Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fellowship program.

Artist and HSU staff member, Benjamin Funke will be speaking about his work at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The event will take place Sunday, October 2nd at 2 p.m. There will be a tour of his current installation in the Sculpture Garden at the museum. View the event: http://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/art-talk-with-ben-funke/Event?oid=3938118

HSU students Gabriella Jarnaghan and Ty’ithreeha Allen have each been awarded $10,000 scholarships as part of the Rodney T. Mathews Jr. scholarship offered by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. Jarnaghan is a Business Administration sophomore and Allen is a Child Development sophomore minoring in American Indian Education and Psychology. The Lumberjack profiled the students here: http://thelumberjack.org/2016/09/16/hsu-native-american-students-win-morongo-scholarship/

Susan Abbey's course proposal--Acting for the Camera: A Reel Experience--has been accepted for a two week intensive course for Theatre students as part of the CSU Summer Arts, 2017 curriculum. The course, which will be held at CSU, Fresno July 10-23, will feature a professional acting teacher, casting director, and professional actor as mentors to students of theatre who want to learn film and TV acting techniques.

Matthew Derrick and Rosemary Sherriff, Geography Department, are taking over as editors (co-editors) of the California Geographer, a long-standing peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on all aspects of California geography and beyond. There will be a new format that includes not only geographic scholarship, education, and book reviews, but also welcomes non-scholarly essays, photo essays, and geo-visualizations.

Armeda Reitzel is one of the co-authors of an article titled "Setting an agenda for stakeholder research to field test the NCA learning outcomes in communication" that was published in Communication Education in August 2016. This article featured work done as part of the National Communication Association's multiyear Learning Outcomes in Communication grant project.

Steve Martin attended the conference of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Honolulu. Dr. Martin is a co-author of a new IUCN publication – ‘Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN Category 1b.’ The publication, released/issued to the public at the IUCN conference, is described by IUCN as Best Practice Guidelines for IUCN Category 1b (Wilderness), the first global management guidelines that provide state of the art information on protecting and enhancing wilderness values in Category 1b protected areas, and in particular clarifying how wilderness areas and people can coexist in a reciprocal and mutually beneficial manner.

Professor Nicole Jean Hill was recently awarded Best in Show for her series "Unarmed" as part of a juried documentary exhibition titled "With Our Own Eyes" at the RayKo Photo Center. Nicole and her work were also featured in an essay by RayKo Photo Center Director, Ann Jastrab, on allaboutphoto.com See the exhibit at http://www.all-about-photo.com/article.php?title=nicole-jean-hill-unarmed&id=209.

Professor Emeritus Rick Botzler has been working with local kids aged 4 to 16 to survey for chytrid fungus in Humboldt County frogs. With the Ecoclub kids as first author(s), the research team, which includes ecologist colleagues from the US Forest Service, UC Davis and the Integral Ecology Research Center, has published their findings in the recent issue of the Journal of Wildlife Diseases. A great accomplishment fueled by citizen science.

Cynthia Boshell (Lecturer, Native American Studies; HSU Class of 2011) has accepted an invitation to present her recently published paper during the October 2016 World Indigenous Law Conference.

"The Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Doctrine of Discovery: Medieval Christian theology at the heart of modern international policy" is part of the Red Paper series published by Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples.

The Law Conference is an important worldwide event for Indigenous lawyers, academics, thought leaders and those interested in the particular legal issues affecting Indigenous Peoples. Conference website: http://7genfund.org/2016-world-indigenous-law-conference

Amy Livingston, graduate student, lead authored a paper with Erik Jules (Biology) and Jeff Kane (Forestry and Wildland Resources) entitled "Prescribed fire and conifer removal promote positive understory vegetation responses in Quercus garryana woodlands" in the Journal of Applied Ecology this past June

Co-authored three new articles related to fire and fuels management:

“The impact of fuelbed aging on laboratory fire behaviour in masticated woody fuels” in the International Journal of Wildland Fire

“Suites of fire-adapted traits in the southeastern USA oaks: multiple strategies for persistence in fire-prone environments” in the journal Fire Ecology

“Duration of fuels reduction following prescribed fire in coniferous forests of U.S. national parks in California and the Colorado plateau” in the journal Forest Ecology and Management

Jenny Novak, ‘07 HSU Geography Alum, will be receiving an award for Community Preparedness at the White House on behalf of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Her experience as a Geography student Humboldt State led her to a career in reducing risk and planning for natural disasters. She is the Emergency Preparedness Manager at Cal State Northridge.

Link to the press release: http://www.fema.gov/news-release/2016/08/24/fema-honors-achievements-community-preparedness

The Humboldt Arts Council has nominated Benjamin Funke as the Juror for the 22nd Annual Junque Arte Competition and Exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The exhibition will run from October 1st to November 27th in the Thonson Gallery & Melvin Schuler Sculpture Garden.

An opening reception will be held October 1st, from 6 to 9 p.m. during First Saturday Night Arts Alive! The exhibition is sponsored by Linda Wise and Recology Humboldt County.

Funke received his B.F.A. from Columbia College, Chicago in 2005 and his M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 2012. He currently works in the Art Department at Humboldt State University.

Adam Carter will be presenting his paper, "With a Little Help from My Friends: An Empirical Study of the Interplay of Students' Social Activities, Programming Activities, and Course Success" at the ICER 2016 computer science education conference this September.

Dr. Steven Steinberg (Adjunct Professor, Geospatial Science) is speaking at the European Sociological Association, Qualitative Research Summit, Sept. 1- 3 in Cracow, Poland.

He will be presenting in the Mobile and Geospatial Research Technologies session about his recent fish consumption study supported by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board, entitled: A Geospatial Survey of Anglers to Assess Fish Consumption from San Diego Bay, California.

More information about the conference is available at: http://www.esa-cracow.pl/

Dr. Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg has been invited as a keynote speaker to the European Sociological Association, Qualitative Research Summit, Sept. 1- 3 in Cracow, Poland.

She will be presenting on: Sociospatial Grounded Theory: The Qualitative Power of GIS.

More information about the conference is available at: http://www.esa-cracow.pl/

Librarians Katia Karadjova and Marissa Mourer have had their paper, Searching as Strategic Exploration: How well do faculty know their students’ preferences regarding information sources?, accepted at the European Conference on Information Literacy, which will take place in Prague, Czech Republic in October 2016. The paper will be published in Springer's Communications in Computer & Information Science series.

Marissa Mourer, CAHSS librarian, received a grant through the HSU SPF Incentives Program to develop the Library Brain Booth, which seeks to introduce students to scientific research on the effects of mindfulness, attention, and contemplation through hands-on tools and activities in an informal, experiential setting. The Library Brain Booth will open on Wednesday, 8/31 10am-Noon (LIB 114) and Thursday, 9/1 1-3pm (LIB 208). More information about the Brain Booth can be found here: http://library.humboldt.edu/brainbooth.html

Dr. Renée M. Byrd recently published an article titled, " 'Punishment's Twin': Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition" in Social Justice 43-1.

Steve Martin had an article published in the August issue of International Journal of Wilderness -- 'Protecting Visitors and the Wilderness through Stewardship Research.' The article was invited by the Editorial Board of the journal in response to Dr. Martin's recent award for excellence in wilderness stewardship research.